SSD Death?

[comradesean]

My system was running for a while as a server/vnc box so I missed whatever early symptoms it displayed and never had the opportunity of backing up my drive. This is my first dead SSD though and the issue I'm having with the drive is actually a little strange to me. The system will momentarily hang (for almost 2 minutes) during POST and also during Window's detection of drives as if it's just having difficulty communicating with the device. Is this ordinary for a dead SSD or is it possible that something may have shorted out and I can still recover the data? Edited January 16, 2016 by comradesean

[3s-gtech]

Yes, pretty normal. Had a few go that way, early death that was dealt with under warranty.

[comradesean]

Yes, pretty normal. Had a few go that way, early death that was dealt with under warranty.

Alright, It's at least a little comforting to know that I won't be tossing away the data with the RMA. Thanks!

[Arthur]

Out of interest what make/model was the SSD?

[comradesean]

OCZ Vertex 4 256GB

 

Out of interest what make/model was the SSD?

[3s-gtech]

Older OCZs had a poor rep. Not sure about new - Toshiba are in charge and I think they've bucked up their ideas.

[Arthur]

OCZ Vertex 4 256GB

That's unfortunate since the 256GB Vertex 4 has an unusually high failure rate of 11% according to hardware.fr.

 

Older OCZs had a poor rep. Not sure about new - Toshiba are in charge and I think they've bucked up their ideas.

Out of 26 OCZ Arc 100 SSDs we have only had one fail which is really good compared to how unreliable their older (pre-Toshiba) SSDs were.

 

That said, none of the 204 Samsung and 48 SanDisk SSDs in our school computers have failed (yet) so any failure is bad when compared to these drives.

[Davit2005]

Had a Kingston SSDNow v300 go after 2 months, not impressed.

 

Needless to say both SamSung 850 Pro's in the 2 24/7 running servers at home have been faultless so far (holds breath).

[Blackstar]

I'm not surprised - Kingston have been caught doing a bait and switch on the v300s before, they might very well be using bargain bucket components.

[3s-gtech]

That said, none of the 204 Samsung and 48 SanDisk SSDs in our school computers have failed (yet) so any failure is bad when compared to these drives.

 

We've always chosen whichever drive suited at the time so we've had a broad range. Crucial M4s and M500 (something like 150 of these), the M4s being the only drives we've had fail yet (3). We have around 200 V300 (post-B&S) which have been very reliable to be fair. Then we have 200+ Samsung 850 Pros which have been fine so far. Finally, we have 30 or so Sandisks which have been rock solid.

 

The reliability in the 3 1/2 years since we started using SSDs has been far better than with HDDs.

[Arthur]

The reliability in the 3 1/2 years since we started using SSDs has been far better than with HDDs.

Definitely! Even with one or two failures over a similar period, SSD reliability has far exceeded that of HDDs. We used to constantly have laptops with bad sectors due to rough handling while powered on.